'I'd be open to doing more True Detective': Matthew McConaughey expresses interest in reprising Rust Cohle TV role

Maybe more: Matthew McConaughey, pictured in April, said he would be interested in doing more True Detective shows

He is already gathering Emmy Award buzz for his portrayal as enigmatic and cynical police detective Rust Cohle in HBO drama True Detective.

And Matthew McConaughey enjoyed the experience so much, he says he would be 'open' to doing more of the Nic Pizzolatto scripted show.

'I liked True Detective, the whole series and the experience of making
it, so much that I’d be open to doing another one now,' the Oscar-winning actor tells Deadline in a new interview. 'It was like this great
extended experience, like you were having an opening weekend, for eight
weeks in a row.

'I’d watch it Sunday, and found myself talking about it
all week with friends. And I knew what was going to happen. I’d read the
scripts and played the scenes, and I was still engaging in
conversations like I didn’t know what was going to happen!

'I’d watch it
again Tuesday and Wednesday, for the pure enjoyment of watching those
characters play off each other. I loved it that much, and then I would
get excited with the anticipation for the next one. What a wonderful
eight weeks.'

True Detective used multiple timelines over 17 years to follow the investigations of Rust and Detective partner Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) as they hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana. The show also starred Michelle Monaghan as Hart's wife Maggie.

Filmed around a month after McConaughey completed work on Dallas Buyer's Club in the role that would win him a Best Actor Oscar, True Detective was not something McConaughey was prepared to commit to for a long period.

'I always how I saw
it as One season, eight episodes, a finite beginning, middle and end,
goodbye, look forward to watching it,' he admits. 'If HBO had wanted an option on me
for a Season two or three, I wouldn’t have done it. I wouldn’t have walked
into something where they could say, “We’ve got you for the next three
years.”

'I read those first two episodes, and the
quality was so apparent, and had such an identity to it that even
without reading the final six episodes, I felt this was going to be hard
to screw up. The voices were so clear, if the writer just stays on this
path, it was going to be hard to wreck this train.'

There had been reports that a second series of the show would have three new leads with Jessica Chastain linked to the role - the actress has since denied she will be on the show.

Creator Pizzolatto told HitFix the new season will be about 'hard women, bad men and the secret occult history of the United States transportation system,' but has yet to make any casting announcements.

In the interview, McConaughey also revealed he had first been lined up for the Marty part but pushed for the role of Rust.

'I said, the guy on the page who I cannot
wait to hear what’s going to come out of his mouth, and who I agreed
with in so many ways, or at least I understood his mind and his
character, was Rustin Cohle.'